From WeRateDogs Tweet,
Which is a
"SUPER - WOW"
dog breed
By Keerthana Manoharan on 25 April, 2021

How do WeRateDogs rates dogs?

WeRateDogs is a Twitter account that asks people to send photos of their dogs, then tweets on selected photos, gives rating and a humorous comment. Dogs are rated on a scale of one to ten, but are invariably given ratings in excess of the maximum, such as 13/10, 14/10., etc. Why? Because,

they’re good dogs Brent

Popular posts are re-posted on Instagram and Facebook. But, how do we measure whether a post is popular or not? Here comes the two notable features,

  • Re-tweet Count
  • Favorite Count

WeRateDogs team receives 800 to 1,000 submissions daily and they work to narrow them down to about one high-quality piece of dog content per day. Among these, which are the breeds considered as Super-WOW (i.e) highly re-tweeted and favored.

Total tweets for each Breed

I have analyzed the data available from the starting of WeRateDogs twitter account until August 1, 2017, in order to find out the WOW breed.

  • Noticable top breeds being tweeted are, Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Pembroke, Chihuahua, Pug, Toy Poodle and Chow
  • Every other breeds gradually decreases in count

Breeds with Highest Rating

The following graph shows the top rated breeds on average, which have been tweeted 14 times at least.

  • Noticable top 5 rated breeds are, Samoyed, Golden Retriever, Great Pyrenees, Pembroke, and Chow in order
  • The highly rated Samoyed is the \(8^{th}\) breed being highly tweeted

Is Samoyed Super-WOW

Does the breed with highest rating is most likely to have highest Re-tweet and Favorite Count? To find this, the following Heat Map Visualization helps to check the correlation between Rating, Re-tweet and Favorite Count.

  • As the correlation between Rating and either of Re-tweet or Favorite Count is very low, rating is very less likely to impact Re-tweet and Favorite Count

So, the chances of other breed being Re-tweeted and Favored most is high.

Here comes the WOW breed

Let’s check on average Re-tweet and Favorite Count for top 15 breed. The breed being re-tweeted and favored most on average is considered as WOW breed.

In order to avoid the chance of outliers, I have calculated average re-tweet and favorite count for the breeds, which have been tweeted 14 times at least. Among them, top 15 breed is shown in the above graph.

Here, comes the
Super WOW - French Bulldog
with highest average Re-tweet Count (4585) and average Favorite Count (18083) approximately.



Further Read : What are the other factors that impact Re-tweet & Favorite Count?

Additional Info

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A work by Keerthana Manoharan

keer707@gmail.com